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Thursday, 10 July 2008
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The association organizes Kokopelli in France preserving old varieties of plants, including many vegetables, whose characteristics is not included in the official seed catalogues.
 
The association relies on a network of members who practice many seed exchanges in various purposes including the benefit of varieties that we do not usually find the stalls, varieties that offer particular tastes (and colors ) Particularly interesting: organoleptic qualities rare and original landscape in the current food.
 
Kokopelli is also under international trade in the Third World: production of seeds given to farmers, provision of training for seed production, establishment of seed banks, support for networking seed farmers.
 
From a biological point of view the activity of the association has resulted in species and varieties that dormiraient in some seed banks at risk to get lost or be forgotten are cultured each year, small scale, a few thousand gardeners as regards France. In a utilitarian vision, the association provides the active and effective preservation of genes that could serve us in the future.
 
This does not prejudice in commerce or the "free market": in our economy "liberal" trade in these seeds is a form of "market" whose existence can be defended in the name of free enterprise .
 
This would give a turnover that did not receive seed "official" 80 000 euros you can probably estimate the amount negligible compared to the overall market, the annual profit of one seed "official" may be 800 000 euros as suggested by the association in its latest release: Kokopelli: biodiversity, the end of illusions.
 
Although this amount was 100 times greater harm would be negligible at different points of view, the most significant is the conservation of species and biodiversity. It knows it threatened from all sides and we should all be aware that his is a steady diminution irretrievable loss that could lead to ours.
 
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Think here in these conditions more or less uncertain decimating colonies of bees almost everywhere in the world.
The disappearance of bees would lead to that of most species that reproduce by pollination, is at least 30% of our food, our flowers ...

There is therefore an extreme emergency to preserve biodiversity we enjoy again urgently to prevent the disappearance of any species, any variety: we are in the course of the sixth great extinction of species that the Earth has ever known, this extinction is our result, we are responsible and there is no indication that it is not getting worse, quite the contrary.
On the aspect of the nature of our civilization, its quality, she joined the act of eating and brought to a very high degree of finesse what we call "food" or "kitchen": he did never sold more than cookbook that in recent years.

But upstream of the kitchen, gastronomy, there are the "products", vegetables, flowers, fruits ...
And as tomato blue, red or white, born of a grain output of a packet at Kokopelli not look anything in the base, that is picking on a very official footing "hybrid F1 ".

Excluded because these famous seed Kokopelli are not included in the official register of seeds (registration is very expensive), a register of which there are no equivalents in every country in the world, and which prevents France marketing, in any form whatsoever, species and varieties are not included.

A sort of "specialty civilizational" French, registry, which has allowed the association Kokopelli come to be sentenced to a total of 35 000 euros in fines, costs and allowances.

Kokopelli account to date about 4300 members, the accessions are possible under 3 titles: support for 20 euros to 60 euros active and benefactor to 150 euros. A rapid increase by 10 or more this number of members would be a strong signal given by those who believe that biodiversity is priceless to our legislators to amend the rules, which have allowed these convictions.

In the absence of other (non-violent of course) is the least that everyone can do to defend the defenders of biodiversity, taste and freedom.
 
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